Pub Date: September 2, 2008
Dewey: E
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 05 to 09
Physical Info: 0.20" H x 11.44" L x 7.44" W ( 0.40 lbs) 40 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Books and Libraries | Girls and Women | Stories in Verse see also Poetry
Description: This is a funny, heartwarming story about a quirky woman with a not-so-peculiar obsession. Cheers for Elizabeth Brown, a true patron of the arts.--"School Library Journal." Full color.
Brief description: Husband and wife duo Sarah Stewart and David Small have worked together on several picture books, including The Friend, The Money Tree, and The Library. The Gardener is a Caldecott Honor book. Small has also illustrated other books, including the 2001 Caldecott Medal winner So You Want to Be President?, by Judith St. George. Stewart and Small live in a historic home on a bend of the St. Joseph River in Michigan.
Review Quotes:
"Reading has never looked quite so delicious." --Booklist
"A story told in witty rhyme, about a bookish Elizabeth Brown, who . . . takes her greatest pleasures in life from her literary treats . . . This is a funny, heartwarming story about a quirky woman with a not-so-peculiar obsession. Cheers for Elizabeth Brown, a true patron of the arts." --School Library Journal "The author and illustrator have created [a] strong, independent, iconoclastic heroine . . . The illustrations of glorious piles of more and more books and of happy, red-headed Elizabeth Brown and a friend reading by the fire . . . depict the acme of utter bliss for bibliomaniacs." --The Horn Book Magazine "A joy to look at." --The New York Times Book Review